THE USE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF LONELINESS AMONG STUDENTS: INNOVATIONS AND FEATURES OF PRACTICES

Abstract

This article is aimed at studying educational technologies that are effectively used to prevent feelings of loneliness among teenagers. As a research method, the questionnaire method was used, which allows to effectively identify the features of teenagers' ideas about loneliness and the features of socio-psychological prevention of loneliness in adolescence. The authors of the article have described the educational technologies used to prevent feelings of loneliness in adolescence, developed recommendations for the use of the film therapy in working with teenagers. The authors for the first time revealed the idea of teenagers about loneliness. It is revealed that adolescents identify the concepts of loneliness with the lack of communication and close people. It is shown that teenagers say that the lack of leisure, the lack of an active life position, the lack of best friends are their actual life problems. The authors show that most children consider the extracurricular organization of their leisure time by teachers not interesting and boring. Educational technologies of socio-psychological prevention of the negative consequences of psychological problems among adolescents – increased aggressiveness, distrust of people, a sense of loneliness – are: preventive conversation, interviews, information, socio-psychological trainings and methods of art therapy. It is shown that in order to achieve the desired effect when using art therapy for the prevention of loneliness among adolescents, the following requirements are: a trusting atmosphere; the need to touch meanings and symbols that are significant for the viewers; the correspondence of films to the age characteristics of adolescents, their individual characteristics; the need to choose films in accordance with the emotions that teenagers would like to experience.